Mead and dried fig cookies

I am here, then I disappear, I peep out on Twitter and Facebook, then I disappear again. I have just a few days left before the due time for the Italian book (I am perfectly aware I’m talking about it as it was a baby.. if you want to know I’m in labour right now). As you can imagine I’m browsing and surfing through notes, scribbled papers, lost and found recipes and photos. Past this, there are two other important deadlines (the recipes for the Fall issue of Dolci Tentazioni magazine and the book in English), then finally I’ll close all the thoughts and racings in a suitcase and I will fly to London to find new inspiration and life blood for almost two weeks. I know it works, so I just keep going with this in my mind.

Since I care about you, I do not want to leave you like this, with nothing to munch on: I retrieved from the first issue of Dolci tentazioni a tempting recipe for cookies made with figs and mead.

It is a late summer treat, now that the temperatures are slightly cooler (at least here in Italy, at least for this morning, I cannot guarantee for further on the day).

In this Monday that for many of you is a back to work Monday, a little promise of sweetness for tonight. Stay focused on the goal, in 30 minutes you can have a box of biscuits scented with honey and dried figs, one of those cookies you usually indulge on during holidays, when calories don’t count. Carve out 10 minutes for yourself, relax and enjoy a cookie in silence. Then collect all the crumbs with a finger, lick it, do not leave anything behind. You’ll be ready to go again.